Although Ding Ji's guess made his heart jump, Lin Wuyu still insisted: "Can't you count?"
"Don't ask me how I guessed it?" Ding Ji looked at him, and after waiting for a while, Lin Wuyu didn't speak, and he clicked again, "Okay, I'll count."
Then I went to the cashier and asked for a pen and paper.
"...you do the math," Lin Wuyu looked at him, "do you want to set up a formula? Still take a pen and paper?"
"Don't disturb me." Ding Ji said.
"Oh." Lin Wuyu responded, picking up a small biscuit and eating slowly.
Ding Ji started to draw Dao Dao on the paper, Lin Wuyu glanced at it and saw that the drawing was a gossip, and he didn't know what kind of hexagram he was drawing, so he felt that Ding Ji could get in trouble.
"It's fine for my grandma to close her eyes and pinch. I'm a layman, so I have to make a draft." Ding Ji stopped after drawing for a while, stared at the paper for a while, and raised his head.
Lin Wuyu stuffed the biscuits into his mouth, looking forward to it: "Have you figured it out?"
"Yeah." Ding Ji nodded, crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the trash can beside him.
"What am I doing here?" Lin Wuyu asked.
"Find someone." Ding Ji said.
Lin Wuyu didn't speak, picked up the milk tea and took two sips before starting to laugh.
Couldn't stop laughing.
"You asked me to do the math," Ding Ji leaned back on the chair and crossed his arms, "I told you not to."
"Okay," Lin Wuyu closed his smile and cleared his throat, "What else did you guess?"
"This person is 95 years old," Ding Ji said. "I'm not sure about anything else. I'll be sure after you say this number."
"Really?" Lin Wuyu thought for a while, "I originally wanted to say 1995, but it was too obvious, so I changed it to 95."
"It's just that you hesitated for a second..." Ding Ji turned the pen in his hand, "it's more obvious."
"Then you still guess." Lin Wuyu said.
"It's the same result!" Ding Ji roared at him, turned his head and stretched out his hand into the trash can, "Come on, come on, or take a look again, I'll tell you..."
"Hey, hey!" Lin Wuyu hurriedly grabbed him, "It's counted, it's counted, you don't need to tell me, I don't understand."
Ding Ji glared at him and sat up again.
Lin Wuyu gently knocked on the table with the milk tea cup: "Do me a favor."
"How can I help this kind of feudal superstition!" Grandma shook her head as she chopped the meat, and pushed him aside.
"There is always a general direction," Ding Ji gave in to the side, "Didn't you help that family find a child before?"
"Can this be calculated casually?" Grandma frowned, "Of course it's good to be accurate, but it's not 100% accurate. If it's not accurate, isn't it just to give people the hope of making them happy? I'm not a scammer on the street. Half fairy."
Ding Ji sighed.
"Didn't you be like that before?" Grandpa said with a smile while watching TV in the living room.
"You know the shit," Grandma turned around. "It used to be to survive! Now you can't live?"
"You two will choke later," Ding Ji stood between them, "It's about business."
"Did you promise?" Grandma asked.
"I didn't agree," Ding Ji said, "I said I'd go home and try."
"Just your two knives, try it," grandma said with disdain. "Let your mother know and say that we didn't take you well... Did you tell them if you didn't go home for dinner today!"
"I'll say it now." Ding Ji said.
"This unfortunate child," grandma sighed, "let your grandpa say it. You only told them now, and it's noisy again."
Grandpa picked up the phone, put on his reading glasses and started dialing.
Lin Wuyu was in the classroom for self-study this evening. The table was full of books and papers, and he lowered his head with all his concentration.
I want to mix a box of two-tone ice cream in my hand with a stainless steel spoon.
"You cover it for a while, won't it be easy to deal with when it's soft," Chen Mang said, "usually your brain is so good, why did you follow up with rapeseed oil?"
"I don't want to eat it." Lin Wuyu said.
"Then you can scrape from the cream to the chocolate and eat it in one bite," Chen Mang said.
"Look at your book," Lin Wuyu glanced at him, "If you can't read it, let's do a competition?"
Chen Mang lay back on the table: "I'm not looking for abuse, Brother Lin said, don't challenge yourself anymore, it's easy to break your self-confidence."
Lin Wuyu laughed and continued to whip the ice cream.
Since the request to ask Ding Ji to help find someone, it has been a night and a day, and there is no news from Ding Ji. Lin Wuyu estimates that because there are no details, Ding Banxian'er is worried.
Fortunately, he didn't really pin his hopes on fortune-telling.
However, Ding Banxian'er still sent him a message when the second get out of class was over the next afternoon.
- This person is definitely not local, not local for a year before or after
There is a video attached to the message.
Lin Wuyu stood in the corridor and clicked on the video.
The camera is facing the ground, but it can be seen that it is in a small park, and the floor tiles look the same.
Then a hand reached into the camera, accompanied by Ding Ji's voice: "look good, I didn't blind you."
There are three copper coins in the palm of his hand.
Then the coins were thrown to the ground, picked up again, and thrown again...
Because there were classmates coming and going around, Lin Wuyu didn't look too closely. In short, after throwing it away, the video ended.
Cloudy and foggy.
- Any more questions to ask
Ding Ji sent another message.
- You didn't go to school
Ding Ji looked at the news on his phone, and took a long time to react.
- Will you focus on the key points? ? ? ?
- Don't work either
When Ding Ji saw this, he put the phone in his pocket and sighed.
He wasn't sure if what Lin Wuyu was going to say later was "so smart, why didn't he study", but he always thought it would be something similar.
Although he didn't stop reading, he didn't want to explain it, so he struggled.
Hello, classmate Lin, I am studying, and I am in the third middle school, and my grade is within ten... Then my father's voice will ring in my ears.
You're so smart, you should be better, you just didn't work hard...
"Ah." Ding Ji sighed, took out a paper that was just issued today from his schoolbag, spread it on the ground, and looked down.
"An inch of time is worth an inch of gold." Dadong's voice came from behind.
"Doesn't your life start at eight o'clock in the evening and end at two in the middle of the night," Ding Ji said, "Why did you run out of time at this time?"
"I'm passing by, here it is," Dadong sat next to him and handed over a box of two-color ice cream, "I'm interested, seeing you here, I immediately went to buy your favorite..."
"Speak." Ding Ji looked at the paper under his feet.
"What?" Dadong asked.
"It's a matter." Ding Ji said.
"Damn, do I have to buy ice cream for you?" Dadong looked hurt.
"Isn't it?" Ding Ji turned to look at him.
"...It seems to be true." Dadong thought for a while.
"I didn't have time to talk to you before the college entrance examination," Ding Ji opened the ice cream box and tried to mix the two flavors with a small spoon, "Find someone else."
"Who is holding the ground!" Dadong shouted, "Who is holding the ground! Will he speak to you!"
"Are you performing on the street?" Ding Ji asked.
"Yes." Dadong replied.
"Are you charging for songs?" Ding Ji asked again.
"...Yes." Dadong replied.
"Then you..." Ding Ji continued.
Dadong interrupted him: "Xingxingxing, you don't have time, don't you have time... I'm just wondering, do you still know that you are going to take the college entrance examination? I haven't seen how caring you are before, I don't know. Everyone thinks you're a half fairy."
Ding Ji clicked his tongue: "Do you see me every day? You are so imprecise."
Dadong performed in the small park at night. In order to prevent being caught temporarily to make up the number, Ding Ji packed up and left the small park.
Lin Wuyu didn't ask him any more about finding someone, but said that the mall called to get the induction cooker tomorrow, and they made an appointment to meet at Xinjia's door at 6 pm.
But whether it's fortune-telling or looking at the pictures, sometimes it's very magical. Ding Ji half-calculated and guessed, and it is estimated that the person Lin Wuyu is looking for is his brother or sister.
Of course, if you don't count him, you can almost guess it. Lin Wuyu talks about the little details that are hard to notice when talking about this person, as well as his reaction when he talked about brothers and sisters last time.
Ding Ji even thought that his indifference towards abandoned babies might have something to do with this.
It's just that it's inconvenient for him to ask more questions. No matter what kind of family, if a person is missing, it's not an injury that a stranger can touch casually.
"Am I late?" When Lin Wuyu arrived at Xinjia's door, he saw Ding Ji sitting on the doorstep with a bored look on his face.
It looks like I have to wait here for twenty minutes to be in this state.
He quickly glanced at the time.
"I'm not late," Ding Ji stood up, "I'm early."
"Then go in," Lin Wuyu said, "just the ID card and the coupon, right?"
"Well," Ding Ji nodded, "I'm sorry for wasting your time."
"Why are you being so polite all of a sudden?" Lin Wuyu looked at him, a little confused, "Please invite me for a bottle of Coke that day."
"Speak with conscience!" Ding Ji raised his voice immediately.
"There are also milk tea and snacks." Lin Wuyu said.
"I did a calculation for you!" Ding Ji said, "I did another calculation later! How many brain cells did it cost me."
Lin Wuyu did not continue.
To be honest, the news that Ding Ji sent that day disappointed him a little.
He didn't expect much to find it, but when Ding Ji said that this person hadn't been in the local area for several years, whether it was true or not, he felt a little uncomfortable.
After taking the induction cooker and walking out of the mall, Lin Wuyu couldn't help but ask, "Are you accurate?"
"I really don't know," Ding Ji hugged the induction cooker, "I can only say that what I can calculate is this result, if you still want to know where this person is, I definitely can't, I can't help you, you can learn by yourself. "
Lin Wuyu smiled, and when he was about to speak, Ding Ji tilted his head at him: "Go, drink water."
"I don't drink water." Lin Wuyu said.
Ding Ji looked back at him: "Drink a drink, drink milk tea, drink..."
"I want to eat." Lin Wuyu answered truthfully.
"You asked me to treat you to dinner?" Ding Ji asked.
"No," Lin Wuyu sighed, "Forget it, let me invite you, grilled skewers, is there anything delicious around here?"
"Ask the right person," Ding Ji raised his eyebrows, "I'm familiar with this place, let's go."
"I thought you were in the small park." Lin Wuyu followed him forward.
"I've been around a lot," Ding Ji said, "I have acquaintances wherever you can tell."
"Really." Lin Wuyu smiled.
Ding Ji took him into a big shop, and the smell of grilled skewers wafted through his nostrils.
There were not too many people in the restaurant during dinner time. The two of them found a small table and sat down. When the waiter brought the skewers over, Ding Ji asked for a few more beers, and then took out his mobile phone to pay.
"I'm coming." Lin Wuyu reached out and blocked the QR code on the table.
"I can," Ding Ji said, "an induction cooker."
"I bought this induction cooker after I invited you," Lin Wuyu said, "Didn't your grandma only charge you no money?"
Ding Ji laughed.
"You don't have a job, right?" Lin Wuyu took out his phone and scanned the code, "Save it."
"Then do you have a job?" Ding Ji asked.
"I am a student and have a legitimate source of pocket money," Lin Wuyu said, "I also have a part-time job."
To be honest, although Lin Wuyu had a deep misunderstanding of him, Ding Ji was still moved by his logic like taking advantage of him.
"Okay," Ding Ji put away the phone, opened a bottle of wine and put it in front of him, "Thank you."
"Don't drink." Lin Wuyu said.
"Are you driving?" Ding Ji asked.
"...I just don't drink," Lin Wuyu sighed, "and I have to review at night."
"It's really hard." Ding Ji said smoothly.
"You have time to find a job," Lin Wuyu said, "or learn something."
"Why?" Ding Ji picked up the bottle and took a sip.
"Then what do you rely on to make money?" Lin Wuyu said, "Is it a fortune-telling? It's not easy to be fooled now."
Ding Ji laughed and wiped the beer foam on his mouth: "Don't say it, sometimes it's really funny, I'll tell you one, my childhood neighbor."
"Huh?" Lin Wuyu was quite interested.
"This old man said that he was a Taoist priest from Maoshan, who could cure diseases. A child in our alley had a headache, so his mother took him to the old man's place." Ding Ji took a string of mutton and gnawed it, "the old man wrote on the ground. Feng Huo Lei three words, and then take a branch to poke the word, ask him, does it still hurt?"
"It hurts." Lin Wuyu replied cooperatively.
Ding Ji nodded: "The old man changed the word and poked it up again, does it still hurt?"
"It seems to be better?" Lin Wuyu continued to cooperate.
"Clever," Ding Ji gave him a thumbs up, "Poke a few more times, and then stick the branch into the soil and tie it, the child says it doesn't hurt anymore."
"Psychological suggestion," Lin Wuyu said, "Children are especially easy to accept psychological suggestion."
"I thought about it at the time," Ding Ji held his chin, "what if I turn around?"
"How come back?" Lin Wuyu asked.
"I told the child, I said I would too, I'm the old man's closed disciple," Ding Ji said, "He taught me all the secrets in his life, and I also told him that the old man's secrets were covered by me. pressed in."
Lin Wuyu held a bunch of chicken wings and couldn't even eat it with a smile.
"Huh—" Ding Ji pressed his hand on the table to learn the movement, "Just press it in like this, the child will believe it immediately, and I will write you a few words when I say it."
"What did you write?" Lin Wuyu asked while smiling.
"Big, middle and small," Ding Ji said, "I knew a lot of characters in kindergarten at the time, but I couldn't write them out. Anyway, he didn't know them either. I'll stamp them after they've written them. pain?"
Lin Wuyu started to laugh out loud.
"Children said it seemed a little bit?" Ding Ji also laughed, "I actually poked it three times, and when I poked the last time, I said you should have a headache right now! Then I stabbed the stick into it. In the dirt, ho! Poor boy, that kid ran away with his head in his hands."
"Does it hurt?" Lin Wuyu tried his best to hold back his smile.
"It hurt all night, and his mother came to chase after me." Ding Ji took a bite of the mutton.
"You have to tell him, just pull out the stick in the ground." Lin Wuyu said solemnly.
"Damn," Ding Ji was delighted, "Have you ever done such a thing! The door is clear."
"No," Lin Wuyu shook his head, "I wasn't as smart as you when I was young."
Ding Ji didn't speak, he smiled and took another bite of the mutton.
Lin Wuyu's slight pause was probably to avoid words like smart, because he knew that he didn't like being called a prodigy, and he probably didn't want to be praised for being smart either...
Ding Ji picked up the beer bottle, knocked lightly on Lin Wuyu's hand holding the chicken wings, and took a sip of wine.
When Lin Wuyu returned to the dormitory, he carried two pockets of barbecue as usual, and the wind swept through the guard's room. The only difference was that he had an extra book in his hand today.
Ding Ji didn't know why, but kept carrying the mystery of palmistry all day long.
I came out after eating the skewers today, and solemnly handed the book to Lin Wuyu: "Don't you want to read it? If I borrow it from you, it will only take three days. I am not responsible for affecting the review."
Lin Wuyu looked at his expression, and felt that what he had received seemed to be the handwritten copy of the secret manual passed down by the last magician on the rivers and lakes.
When he returned to the dormitory with two pockets of barbecue, the first period of the evening self-study was not over yet, Lin Wuyu took a pocket and prepared to throw it on the next table first.
As soon as the door of the dormitory was opened, the door next door also opened, Xu Tianbo stuck his head out: "I smell a smell that makes people crazy at night."
"The nose is so good." Lin Wuyu handed him the barbecue, "Didn't you go to self-study?"
"Go right away," Xu Tianbo said, "I just finished taking a shower, so that a group of people won't rob it at night... Are you going to study?"
"Don't go, I will read a book in my dormitory." Lin Wuyu said.
"What book?" Xu Tianbo asked.
"A book to study." Lin Wuyu smiled.
"What kind of book do you study?" Xu Tianbo also laughed, "The tone of your voice is not a study book for the college entrance examination, right?"
"Look at the picture." Lin Wuyu cleared his throat.
"...Yes," Xu Tianbo gave him a thumbs up, "You are a legend."
"Too many skills don't overwhelm one's body, and to walk in many ways." Lin Wuyu replied solemnly.
"Okay," Xu Tianbo patted him on the shoulder and walked over to the stairs, "Remember to give me a 20% discount card when it opens."
"No problem." Lin Wuyu nodded.
After Xu Tianbo left, Lin Wuyu was left alone in the corridor of the dormitory of senior year, so quiet that one could feel the pressure.
He leaned on the railing and watched Xu Tianbo trot towards the classroom.
A good student with a sense of urgency, self-discipline, serious hard work.
I don't know if Ding Ji has ever tried to look at his face, what is the difference in face between two people who look alike, obviously have a similar appearance, but have a completely different character and life.
Lin Wuyu lay on the side of the railing for a while, ready to go back to the dormitory, when the phone vibrated in his pocket.
He took a look at it, and was surprised to find that it was Lao Lin who was calling.
"Brother Lin?" He answered the phone.
"Are you in school?" Lao Lin asked.
"In the dorm," he said.
"I'll go look for you." Lao Lin said.
"What's the matter?" Lin Wuyu frowned.
"Your dad came over this afternoon," said Lao Lin, "I'll go over and tell you in detail."